What is the significance of material and non-material cultural elements for the study of race contact and intermixture?
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

It was, in fact, towards the corral that the lava was rushing as the new crater faced the east, and consequently the fertile portions of the island, the springs of Red Creek and Jacamar Wood,
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

Having indulged in this wild hope he went upstairs, and looked out of the window, and pictured her through the evening journey to London, whither she and Phillotson had gone for their holiday; their rattling along through the damp night to their hotel, under the same sky of ribbed cloud as that he beheld, through which the moon showed its position rather than its shape, and one or two of the larger stars made themselves visible as faint nebulæ only.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

The sisters followed him into the outer cave, where David was beginning, by his sighs, to give symptoms of returning consciousness, and then commending the wounded man to their attention, he immediately prepared to leave them.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

Are the people to be blamed, if they have the sense of rational creatures, and can think of things no otherwise than as they find and feel them?
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

These conditions mark off the sphere of rational communication and society; where they fail altogether there is no mutual intelligence, no conversation, no moral solidarity.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Jewish writers writing for Jewish readers present unusual material for the study of race consciousness and its accompaniment of contempt for other races.
— from The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem by Anonymous

The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

I stayed with her, my heart unfettered and my senses enchained, never wearied of holding her in my arms, that proud and quarrelsome woman, captivated by my senses, or rather carried away, overcome by a youthful, healthy, powerful charm, which emanated from her fragrant person and from the well-molded lines of her body.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

We put him to bed; but the paralysis has spread, he has shown no sign of returning consciousness, and I think that we shall hardly find him alive.'
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

She indicated certain jars of canned fruit which were to be used for the funeral dinner, and planned for the setting of raised cake and the baking of "fine cake."
— from Katy Gaumer by Elsie Singmaster

Mark was deeply touched, he had not suspected Mr. Shelford of really caring about him, and the kindness and sympathy of this offer made him feel how little he deserved such friendship; and then the familiar class-rooms, dusty and stuffy at the close of a summer day, had brought back all his old weariness of school routine.
— from The Giant's Robe by F. Anstey

My eyes are gladdened by the sight of roses climbing along the wall or twining the portal.
— from The Rifle Rangers by Mayne Reid

Village or camp on the W side of Redwood Cr. about 2 mi. above kī´-loo ch -tah
— from California Athabascan Groups by Martin A. Baumhoff

Now, after conferring with experienced planters and some leading native officials, I came to the conclusion that a system of registration could alone mitigate the serious evils of the advance system, and in conjunction with them I drew up a draft of a proposed Act which I laid on the table for the consideration of the Mysore Government when I attended the Representative Assembly in 1891, and I may mention that the draft in question has been printed in the Government Report of the Proceedings.
— from Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore With chapters on coffee planting in Coorg, the Mysore representative assembly, the Indian congress, caste and the Indian silver question, being the 38 years' experiences of a Mysore planter by Robert H. (Robert Henry) Elliot

“These volumes contain a miscellaneous set of reminiscences, comments, and anecdotes, written in a light and jocular style.
— from Eighteenth Century Waifs by John Ashton

His name will long survive as that of one of the ablest thinkers the world has produced, a reasoner of exceptional ability, whose scope of research covered all fields and whose discoveries in practical science formed the first true introduction to mankind of this great field of human study, to-day the greatest of them all.
— from Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 10 (of 15), Greek by Charles Morris

The officers had requested[a] that lands of inheritance, to the annual value of ten thousand pounds, should be settled on Richard Cromwell, and a yearly pension of eight thousand pounds on her "highness dowager," his mother.
— from The History of England from the First Invasion by the Romans to the Accession of King George the Fifth Volume 8 by Hilaire Belloc

It will take a good many days to unload, and then ship our return cargo, and, if the roads are good, we’ll show the natives some new wrinkles in the way of fancy driving.
— from Bert Wilson, Wireless Operator by J. W. Duffield